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Old 06-22-2011, 06:22 PM   #1
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Question How to make Fetch news generate MOBI files?
Since I have a Kindle I'd like Fetch news to save the output as MOBI files and not ePUBS. I searched the help file and looked everywhere in the UI, but I cannot seem to find an option to change the default output format from ePUB to MOBI. How do I make Calibre save the news as mobi files?
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Old 06-22-2011, 06:45 PM   #2
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Since I have a Kindle I'd like Fetch news to save the output as MOBI files and not ePUBS. I searched the help file and looked everywhere in the UI, but I cannot seem to find an option to change the default output format from ePUB to MOBI. How do I make Calibre save the news as mobi files?
I think you need to run the Welcome Wizard or use
Preferences: Common Options:
and set your output profile to the reader you wish to send News to.
The reader choice determines some of these parameters (and does not matter to others, like exporting (send to/save to) a book).
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Old 06-23-2011, 03:17 AM   #3
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I think you need to run the Welcome Wizard or use
Preferences: Common Options:
and set your output profile to the reader you wish to send News to.
The reader choice determines some of these parameters (and does not matter to others, like exporting (send to/save to) a book).
Thanks for your quick reply. I used the Welcome Wizard to change the device to Kindle and everything works fine.
Since the user cannot quickly tell which reader has been selected as the output device, I think it would be nice, if Kovid could add an extra drop-down list box to the Sending Books to Devices dialog box to quickly change the output device.
This would be useful to people who have two different kinds of ebook readers with different default ebook formats.
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Since the user cannot quickly tell which reader has been selected as the output device, I think it would be nice, if Kovid could add an extra drop-down list box to the Sending Books to Devices dialog box to quickly change the output device.
This would be useful to people who have two different kinds of ebook readers with different default ebook formats.
I am not sure that is needed - and if so it does not belong there! Calibre will already detect the device type - and thus the formats it can handle. Changing the default output profile can be done easily enough already via either re-running the Welcome wizard or Preferences->Conversion->Common Options->Page Setup. It is not something that is normally done very often for the vast majoirty of people as they do not normally get news for more than one device type.

If anything, there should be a request that is specific to News fetching to be able to specify multiple target types to be generated on a fetch. Perhaps also a more prominent display the current profile in the UI?
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Old 02-02-2012, 09:40 PM   #5
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I verified that this setting is set to Kindle, yet I still get my news fetched as EPUB. That is, when I click on the fetched news entry on the main screen and look the right, it says Formats: EPUB. How can I fix this or investigate further?
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Preferences->Behavior and set output format to MOBI
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Old 02-05-2012, 04:00 PM   #7
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Preferences->Behavior and set output format to MOBI
Strange--that setting was also correct, but only now am I getting news in MOBI format. I wonder why it didn't take effect on the first news fetch after I changed the settings?
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